[dundee] OpenBIOS/LinuxBIOS

[Nistur]

Having not looked in much depth into the structure of motherboards 
(something I am going to do very shortly) I can't say much but from what 
you said it might make sense. A have no particular preference to any 
hardware manufacturers currently but the computer that I am hopefully 
building today (assuming the courier arrives with my case) has an ASUS 
P5K in it. I don't know whether I'll even look into LinuxBIOS for that 
yet as it won't be a purely Linux machine.

I've heard of the embedded linux motherboards previously (I believe 
Hazel linked me to an article) and I think this is a great idea 
especially from the point of you, like you said, installing whichever OS 
you want. However, I cannot see this being implemented officially in the 
near future? Can you imagine how Microsoft would feel if PCs were 
shipped with embedded Linux and they were required to make linux 
installers? I guess if it did happen then they would do it, however I 
feel that if they can persuade retailers to sell CDs or preloaded 
windoze boxes then that's what they'll do. The less knowledge the 
windoze userbase has of Linux the better for them. Shame

Still waiting on a reply from the LinuxBIOS mailing list. I think I'm 
being ignored :(

gordon dunlop wrote:
> I won't be joining the mailing list as my inbox already gets clogged up
> on a daily basis. I have a theory, Phillip, in why the Linuxbios uses a
> different configuration from the proprietary motherboard bios. I think
> that the Linuxbios uses the processor as its northbridge and the 
> motherboard northbridge chipset as the Linuxbios southbridge. The
> motherboard southbridge is not required as the Linux kernel has the Sata
> and Pata drivers within it (sound's logical).
>
> As I am an Asus fan boy here is an article about an Asus motherboard
> with embedded Linux:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=869&num=1
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=869&num=1>
>
> The benefit of this technology for the average user is when an operating
> system will not boot up from the hard drive, which will happen at some
> point to most people, especially windoze users. They can still access
> the Internet and do other things until their system is repaired rather
> than being left with a crippled machine, it would be good to see an
> embedded Puppy Linux which runs out of Ram being installed. I can see
> another benefit, in that as broadband speeds are going to increase over
> the next couple of years (If B.T. and the other ISP's get their fingers
> out) and this motherboard technology is developed more and more, it will
> be feasible for computer manufacturers and resellers to provide O.S.
> free computers for all, where a user can download their preferred choice
> of operating system directly on to a local disk thereby leveling the
> operating system playing field.
>
> Gordon
>
>
> Nistur wrote:
>   
>> I had thought of joining the mailing list, but the post I sent was
>> pending approval. It took me until this morning to realise it's
>> because my real email address is @googlemail.com not @gmail.com and I
>> registered with my email @gmail.com... but yeah, tried reposting and
>> I'll see what I get :) I'm also sitting on their IRC channel in case
>> someone comes online  :)
>> I had to google my laptop info :( I feel out of touch. Damn.
>>
>>
>>     
>
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